One hundred books famous in children's literature /

Bibliographic Details
Other Authors:	Loker, Chris (Curator), Shefrin, Jill (Editor)
Format:	Book
Language:	English
Published:	New York : Grolier Club, 2014.
Subjects:	Children's books > Exhibitions. Children's literature > History and criticism > Exhibitions. Children > Books and reading > History > Exhibitions. Children > Books and reading. Children's books. Children's literature. Criticism, interpretation, etc. Exhibition catalogs. History.

Table of Contents:

Essays. Introduction
Bibliophiles in the nursery : the gradual legitimacy of collecting rare children's books / Justin G. Schiller
"Pity that any children should be .. .brought up ... without the skill of reading" / Jill Shefrin
Cutting loose : productivity and inventiveness among the nineteenth-century publishers / Brian W. Alderson
Imagination, invention, and appropriation in twentieth-century picture-book art / Nick Clark
The catalogue. Principles of description ; Abbreviations and glossary ; References ; One hundred books.